fang13 wrote:So I decided to simplify this quite a lot, and go with "I'd rather be ashes than dust" from an amazing Jack London quote. Thanks again for everyone's help! I really liked all your suggestions for my first attempt. This other quote just really hit home with me.

Sorry for not replying sooner, was having a muse how to translate it.

Serathon aen no lith sennui ast = I would like to be ash instead of dust

Lith = Ash, dust but Ast only means dust so I think an Elf would understand you. There's no verb for 'to prefer', we just have Sennui = rather, instead so I had to reword it slightly.Serathon aen = I would likeno = to belith = ash, dust, sandsennui = instead, ratherast = dust

Hey, could you guys and girls please help me translate two quotes to Sindarin? Would be awesome! I want to get one of them, or both as tattoos

Quote one ( by Alan Watts): You are itQuote two (bruce lee): Be water my friend ( and i would like to see what only be water would look like )thank you so much I don´t really trust the language onlineconverters....

Hi, I was wondering if you could help me out with a translation. I'm looking to translate the word 'Brother', as in genetic/blood brother, into Sindarin.

If it's not too much trouble, I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction as to getting the same translated into Khuzdul. I know that may not be possible though. The idea is for my brother and I to have matching tattoos, his in Cirth script and mine in Tengwar. He favours the Dwarves, whilst I favour the Elves you see.

MontyPopcorn wrote:Hi, I was wondering if you could help me out with a translation. I'm looking to translate the word 'Brother', as in genetic/blood brother, into Sindarin.

If it's not too much trouble, I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction as to getting the same translated into Khuzdul. I know that may not be possible though. The idea is for my brother and I to have matching tattoos, his in Cirth script and mine in Tengwar. He favours the Dwarves, whilst I favour the Elves you see.

Hi!Muindor = Brother(There are a couple of other words, but they're for older speakers from the First Age - if that's what you'd prefer I'll give you those too )

Unfortunately 'brother' isn't a word Tolkien made for Khuzdul, so it would have to be reconstructed Khuzdul.Dictionary can be found herePage 134 has various words for 'brother', and this comes from this site. I believe he took Tolkien's words, Salo's work for the films and then went from there.

Xandarien wrote:Hi!Muindor = Brother(There are a couple of other words, but they're for older speakers from the First Age - if that's what you'd prefer I'll give you those too )

Unfortunately 'brother' isn't a word Tolkien made for Khuzdul, so it would have to be reconstructed Khuzdul.Dictionary can be found herePage 134 has various words for 'brother', and this comes from this site. I believe he took Tolkien's words, Salo's work for the films and then went from there.

My goodness, thank you so very much! Especially for the speedy response

I was wondering if I could find a bit of help from some very generous folks on the One Ring regarding a few group names I need translated into Sindarin. The terms are meant to be applied to groups, guilds, companies and brotherhoods, so I don't know if that will aid in the direction of taking translation or not?

The first group: "The Men of Ivy"This is meant to be a term applied to a group of humans, so if human or men is the appropriate approach, wonderful, or just generic collectives may be more suitable.

Thanks so much! This is wonderful! As to the reddit, I sadly have no experience with them. I'm glad I found this site, however, as this translation is a great help for the One Ring RPG we're running. I really appreciate the time and research put into this. It means a great deal. Thanks again!

During the Second Age, the Men of Numenor spoke Sindarin before they corrupted it to their own language of Adunaic, which is how Sindarin passed to their descendants, the Dúnedain.

Adunaic was the native Mannish tongue of the Edain, more specifically that of the People of Hador (by far the most numerous of the survivors of the Elder Days). It had no connection to the Elvish languages at all; it detectably had some early influence from Dwarvish (Khuzdul), long before the Edain reached Beleriand. One can find a breakdown of the language in Sauron Defeated in conjunction with The Notion Club Papers.

The Dunedain also spoke Sindarin, or at least the educated ones did, in much the same way that educated Medievals spoke Latin. It was a language of lore, and the preferred mode of creating nomenclature, but was always a "learned" language not a cradle-tongue. (In the days of Numenor's decay, the Elvish tongues were suppressed and ultimately speaking them became a capital crime; the "turning point" of the island's history could be said to be the point when Ar-Adunakhor took a regnal name in Adunaic instead of Quenya.)

Hello, I want to give my friend a special gift for her birthday. For that purpose I've order Tolkien's 50th anniverary one volume edition of Lord of the Rings. We are both fans, but she's quite a bit bigger than I am and has great knowledge of the elvish language. To make a long story short, I want to write a special note to her in the book and it would go "Never give up hope. I love you." It's also a play on words with Estel meaning hope, which was also the elvish name for Aragorn (but you already know that xD), a character she sometimes parallels with me (and Arwen with herself.) In any case, I've found an online characters converter which will allow me to write it in the proper script, I just want it to be a proper translation. If you know anyone that will help me with the translation, any help will be appreciated Sindarin is the proper choice as it's the elivsh tongue both Arwen and Aragorn speak in in the movies and books. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Nephya wrote:Hello Can you translate me "Père" and "Papa" (it's mean Father in English) in Sindarin, please ? I'm French and i would like to do a tattoo with one of these words (in french!) in Tengwar so I need id

I'd like to get a tattoo with my daughter's name (Rose) in SindarinI know it's translated as "meril" but it's the actual writing that I'd like but I don't know where I can find it...I really hope I got the right place to post my question as I'm French (so my English is one I learned with fanfictions)Anyway, I hope you'll be able to help me ^^